Authored by: Armaan Vaswani Art by: Ava Shi Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), a complication of diabetes that poorly affects the light sensitive retina in the back of the eye, is one of the leading causes of vision loss worldwide [1]. Genetic eye diseases, which are genetically heterogeneous, affect 1 in 1,000 people [2]. The rapid progression and technical factors of both conditions once led researchers to believe they were incurable. While inherited eye disorders and DR were both thought to be...